BREAKING: Creative Force Streaming at Cannes International Film Week.
Ukraine's civilian resistance. One extraordinary journey across a war zone. Begins streaming on Tuesday.
BREAKING: Screenings begin May 12 — five days from now. Through May 31.
You can see the full official selection right here: cannesfilmweek.com/documentary-feature-films
The direct screening link hasn’t come through yet. Look — Hey, running an international film festival right now is not a simple operation and I get that. But communication isn’t exactly their strong suit at the moment. The second that link lands in my inbox I’m dropping it here. Watch this space.
Here is why the next few weeks matter beyond the film itself.
The festival awards a $500 cash prize to the film with the most views by May 31. Should we win it, every single dollar goes directly to the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation — which provides creative education and emotional support for children in Ukraine living inside the war.
So if you watch it and share it, you’re not just supporting the film.
You’re supporting the people the film was made for.
And while you’re on that official selection page — the company we’re in on this slate makes me proud to be a documentary filmmaker.
Nothing to See Here: Watts handed iPhones to twenty residents — rival gang members, police officers, parents — and gave them full control of their own story. No outside voice. No script. Then put them all in a room together to watch each other’s footage. What happened next is something no Hollywood film could manufacture.
Sila tells the story of Inuit women and three hundred years of Danish colonialism — including a systematic medical program that inserted contraceptive devices into girls as young as thirteen without consent or warning. Luminous. Devastating. Necessary.
Where Is Love? put Syrian refugee children on stage in Jordan performing Oliver! in Arabic. Sir Cameron Mackintosh backed it. It will wreck you in the best possible way.
These films deserve your time. Every one of them.
But start with Creative Force.
Because the children it was made for are still waiting.
Official selection page: cannesfilmweek.com/documentary-feature-films
Screening link dropping here the minute I have it. Share this post in the meantime. It matters more than you know.